JGit/New and Noteworthy/4.10

Features

• CloneCommand: option to set FS to be used
• InitCommand: option to set FS to be used
• Add a command to deinitialize submodules
• FileBasedConfig: support for relative includes
• ObjectDirectory: Add pack directory getter
• Add a setting for fsck to check connectivity only
• dfs: reftable backed DfsRefDatabase: DfsReftableDatabase is a new alternative for DfsRefDatabase that handles more operations for the implementor by delegating through reftables.
• Support symbolic references in ReceiveCommand

Performance improvements

• DfsBlockCache.hasBlock0: quickly check for file in cache
• Performance improvement on writing a large index
• BitmapWalker: do not revisit objects in bitmap
• Introduce RawText#load.
• Skip unreachable garbage packs in dfs fsck

Bug Fixes

1 enhancement requests and 3 bugs were closed

• WorkingTreeIterator should pass FS to submodules
• Use submodule name instead of path as key in config
• bug 519187: URIish: support for empty ports
• bug 528886: Strings#convertGlob: fix escaping of patterns like [\[]
• Config: Drop backslash in invalid escape sequences in subsections
• Config: Match C git behavior more closely in escaping values
• Config: Rewrite subsection and value escaping and parsing
• Fix javadoc errors raised by doclint
• DfsFsck: Skip unborn branches and symrefs to nowhere
• Make Config.readIncludedConfig a noop by default
• Remove use of deprecated X509HostnameVerifier
• bug 501167: TransportHttp: retry on IOException with another mechanism when a 401 occurs on POST and the server advertises Negotiate
• Reject pack if delta exceeds array size limit
• Avoid loading and merging binary data in ResolveMerger
• bug 525907: Avoid bad rounding "1 year, 12 months" in date formatter

Build and Release Engineering

• Upgrade error_prone_core to 2.1.3
• Update Jetty to 9.4.8.v20171121
• bug 529075: Add header Automatic-Module-Name for Java 9
• Updpate oxygen orbit to R20170919201930 and remove old orbit repos
• Update Apache httpclient to 4.5.2 and httpcore to 4.4.6
• Specify consistent version range for junit in OSGi manifests
• Remove maven profile jgit.java8
• Reenable failing the build on javadoc errors
• Require maven 3.5.2
• Upgrade spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.0-RC8
• Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin to 3.7.0
• Update japicmp-maven-plugin to 0.11.0
• Upgrade spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.0
• Upgrade maven-javadoc-plugin to 3.0.0
• Upgrade maven-surefire{-report}-plugin to 2.20.1
• Upgrade maven-dependency-plugin to 3.0.2
• Upgrade maven-shade-plugin to 3.1.0